Originally Posted by
SactoDoug
I wonder what all the goodie-two-shoes do at traffic lights that don't trigger without a law like this in place? Do they get off their bikes and become a pedestrian? Or do they just sit there and wait until a car comes to trigger the light, however long that might be? We know they would never dare break the law and go through a red light because they say they wouldn't.
Actually,
IF I am not mistaken most if not all states already have some sort of language in place to deal with "defective" lights. And tell all road users to treat a light that is defective i.e. doesn't change in a reasonable amount of time that it is legal to treat it as a stop sign and proceed through it when it is safe to do so, just as one would do at a stop sign.